How To: Create a Care Package in Five Simple Steps

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live seasoned fall15 care package-1-2   Happy Monday friends! Create a care package in 5 simple steps. Make your friend’s day! I sent 15 postcards just yesterday and I have six packages to send out today. Can’t stop, won’t stop. I’ll spend all my money on stationary if I want! Here’s how to create a care package with items you already have at home.

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Teachable Moments : Letters

Living with kids, we’re realizing that there are teachable moments all around us! So we’re turning them into a blog series. Example number 1 : BUGS!

I guess it was about a year ago, when Alex was just turning three, that we started to pay more attention to letters. It began with singing the alphabet and spelling his name, and then we started to help him identify the letters all around him : pointing out letters that we saw on daily adventures, spelling words on packages and in store windows, and it’s snowballed from there.

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Early on, we realized that we could minimize a lot of letter confusion if we just stuck to one case, and for now our focus is on uppercase letters. They’re everywhere! 😉

And in this post I wanted to share a few of the fun ways that we’ve increased the letter play in our house. Continue reading